Saturday, February 17, 2018
If I had known the Russians were going to pay people to say bad things
about Hillary Clinton, I would have waited for my check to come in the mail.
This is essentially the essence of the charges that Mueller filed this
week in exposing a Russian conspiracy that largely resembles a Three Stooges routine.
You have to think with all the high-profile Russians named in the
indictment (one of whom I even know in passing), the Russians could have done a
better job in “influencing” the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
To say I’m disappointment is a gross understatement.
Being a huge fan of the early cold war James Bonds movies, I expected
some high-tech espionage, killer satellites, men in black, neat little pocket
devices that can open doors and transmit government secrets to the internet.
We didn’t even get the hacking of voting machines that Jill Stein
promised us or the great conspiracy with Donald Trump Democrats claim allowed
him to win over Clinton in the election. We didn’t’ get Mata hari or even Natasha
and Boris – all we got was a pack of people saying bad things at staged
protests and posting terrible (but sometimes even accurate things) about Clinton
on social media.
In fact, the antics so resemble those employed by the Clinton Campaign
prior to election day and the Soros-funded antics post-election, you would
think the Russians advised both.
Mueller’s pathetic indictment essentially says the Russians snuck in,
set up cells and paid Americans to say bad things about Clinton (and yes, I’m
still waiting for my check in the mail.)
The fact that no Americans were indicted is significant since the
actual activities fall under the category of Freedom of Speech – even if they
strongly resemble the dirty tricks Nixon and Clinton employed.
What apparently is illegal is the fact that the Russians failed to
report themselves as a campaign funding raising organization. It may even be
illegal for a foreign country to be involved in funding campaigns at all. This
is a gray area these indictments fully exploit to build a conspiracy out of an Abbott
and Costello skit.
Indictments suggest that somehow by paying for a bunch of Americans to
say bad things at protest and post bad things on the internet, the election swung
from the Democratic candidate to the GOP.
This is beyond silliness, but Mueller needed to come up with some
conspiracy or another to justify the expenditures of such large amount of tax payers’
money on what most people consider a witch hunt in order to support sour grape Democratic
theories that the Russians somehow helped Trump steal the election.
The indictments so much resemble the New York investigations of the
1940s into communist infiltration of the SUNY colleges and the more famous
1950s Joe McCarty House of Un-American Activities hearings that you have to
wonder if Mueller had the script written for him by a Democratic think tank.
McCarty was trying to prove that Soviets were funding unions and other left-wing
protest groups. Now Mueller is trying to prove the Russians are supporting
right wing groups. But this oppressive act is exactly the same.
While Democrats and media will play this up as fruition of the Russian conspiracy
they claim was taking the place, in truth what has been uncovered so far is so much
a far cry from the claim that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the
election and that the Russians somehow actually influenced the outcome on his
behalf.
The indictments largely come across as more Democratic propaganda paid
for by the taxpayers in order to keep alive a long-discredited concept that can
be played up by Democrats going into the 2018 mid-term elections. In fact, we’re
already getting media spin on how to prevent the Russians from doing so.
What is truly dangerous about the indictments is the potential for
abuse beyond the partisan Mueller findings, but the ability for this legal
concept to be expanded to include any group that protests or posts provocative
things on social media. This is
particularly dangerous to immigrant-rights groups which might get off-shore undeclared
funding and could provide an excuse for law enforcement such as ICE to shut
them down.
The Russian conspiracy that Mueller supposedly uncovered is as ludicrous
as the 1960s attempts by the CIA to give Castro exploding cigars. And Mueller, in promoting it, should put on a
big red nose and big flappy shoes and change his name to Bozzo.
Mueller clearly shows his desperation in providing Democrats the
Russian conspiracy they desperately need in order to take back the House and
Senate later this year.
This is a bogus indictment politically motivated and with political
results the crimes committed here are so petty it's beneath anybody's to even
consider them as a real crime and hardly live up to the hype that Democrats had
been spreading.
But these indictments open the door to a potential to charge anybody
from exercising their free speech rights, especially in someone can make up or
prove some off-shore funding source paid for the protest signs or office space.
Mueller is traveling down the very dangerous path the FBI went in the
early 1970s when law enforcement secretly sought to shut down alternative press.
This is the new Red Scare only instead of coming after the left, Mueller
is the new Joe McCarthy coming after people who lean to the right.
He is sending a very loud message that there is a potential for arrest
if you happen to support the wrong people.
And a political tool used by the Democrats to undermine Trump can
equally be used against Democrats, especially in a time when immigrants are
being deported in droves.
Will ICE now begin to search out funding sources for groups that
support immigrant rights and use them to shut them down?
Democrats really need to be careful about the can of worms they are
opening here, and we all need to fear what might crawl out.
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